Chapter 48: Cao Yong marries Cai
The fleet docked at one of the largest ports in Jiangxia on the north bank of the river, which was very prosperous at this time, with no less than 1,000 ships of all sizes coming and going and docking.
One after another, the masts are like a forest of leafless trees, and each leafless tree is rubbed with a banner of "Huang", "Pang", "Kuai", "Cai", "Ma", "Xi", and "Yang", and there is no other flag except these seven.
Hundreds of warships under the banner of "Cao" sailed here at once, causing a commotion in the harbor, and all of them looked up and down from the boats, from the gorgeously dressed scholars to the sweaty porters in short shirts and torn trousers in the cold wind.
If it weren't for the banner of the Han Dynasty official army, the failure to attack the ships next to it, and the lack of malice, I am afraid that the people in the entire port would have fled in all directions.
There are more than 1,000 ships on the wharf, but they are mainly small boats with oars, and the sailing ships that can support the mast are also bloated transport ships, not warships designed for battle, such as Mengchong, fighting ships, building ships, and sea ships.
Everyone belongs to seven families, and there is no unified command, so it will definitely be difficult to match the battle.
At this time, Cao Yong and Huangfu Xin led the scribes, military waiters, and tun chiefs in the garrison, as well as more than 1,000 soldiers with spears in their hands who made a living on the edge of the port, and greeted them on the shore, which was particularly special compared with the people who were puzzled and frightened around them.
The spear held by the garrison soldiers was very simple, not even comparable to the spears in the ordinary army, it was a small piece of iron that could not be smaller, made into a half-foot-long spearhead, and fixed on a bamboo pole.
The only advantage is that it is cheap, which is also the standard configuration of Cao Xingtun's soldiers.
The iron tools of the Han Dynasty are not like the Tang, Song and Ming dynasties, the development of iron tools is only three or four hundred years, not only the skills of iron smelting are not good, but also the iron mines explored are not many, and the output is not high, so that iron tools are still very precious.
Cao Xing's regular soldiers and garrison soldiers are 500,000, and all the people are soldiers, the strength has been improved, and the style of martial arts has also been cultivated.
But this kind of spear, which has only a little bit of iron, requires nearly 400,000 pieces, and you can imagine that the amount of iron needed is huge.
Jingzhou was already a remote place in the Han Dynasty, especially the other six counties in the north and south of the Great River except Nanyang.
Jingzhou Pang, Huang, Kuai, Cai, Ma, Xi, and Yang Qi are high-ranking families here, but their fame and background are located in the Central Plains, and they cannot be regarded as big names.
The Zhuge Jue and Xuan brothers of the Zhuge family, who went south to escape the war, are actually equivalent to being broken, and they can also marry the descendants of the Pang, Huang, and Kuai families, which can be seen.
Cao Yong led more than 100,000 people south with the position of military commander of more than 1,000 stones, and he also had a good brother, which made him a little famous in Jingzhou.
"Isn't this Cao Zihu, Cao Jun Sima? and the Huangfu family of the wealthy Gao Zuo in Guanzhong, Huangfu Xin! How did they get here? Who are you waiting for, you need such a big show! ”
"Humph! But a burly horseman can also be compared with the children of the world-famous Huangfu family? Presumably, the people who need him to greet him are not noble! ”
The exclamation in the crowd who listened, the scholar in a silk Confucian costume snorted coldly and sarcastically.
When a scholar next to him heard this, he pulled his sleeve and persuaded in a low voice: "Brother Tai is better to be cautious!" Although this Cao Jun Sima is not very outstanding, his cousin is famous all over the world, known as "the best in the world in civil and military affairs". ”
The scholar who heard the conversation between the two next to him took over the topic: "What's more, the Cai family has already married a daughter from Cao Jun Sima on the side, and the day before yesterday, he also invited all the famous and powerful families in Jingzhou to hold a wedding banquet, so that his reputation has increased again in the upper class, and a certain person happened to be invited." ”
The reputation of Cao Yong's cousin Cao Xing has spread to Jingzhou, and his poems are even more popular all over the country, and there are countless admirers of him.
And the Cai family is a wealthy family in the top of the seven families in Jingzhou, since Cai Wei's sister married Taiwei Zhang Wen, they have been obsessed with supporting the party by marriage to achieve their political goals.
The Cai family attaches so much importance to marriage, out of cherishing feathers, it also attaches great importance to the person who marries the Cai family, with the identity of the Cai family's in-laws, even if it is a side daughter, it also makes Cao Yong have a lot less unnecessary trouble in Jingzhou.
The onlookers pointed at the northern army Sima who had been in Jingzhou for a few months, and talked about it in a thick official dialect like singing.
The party Cao Yong didn't care, and the tall and mighty figure stood in the cold wind.
Cao Yong was already very tall and had a large skeleton, but in the past, because of the large amount of food, he always couldn't eat enough, and he was as thin as a reed, and after making a fortune because of Cao Yong, after a year of eating and drinking, exercising, he has grown into a burly man no less than Guan Yu around him.
Cao Jun's warship leaned against the dock, first two hundred tigers and leopards disembarked from the ship to guard, and then Cao Xing got off the bow of the ship.
completely subverted the previous image of Cao Yong, which surprised Cao Xing, and the best relationship with the clansman, reunited after a long absence, and the two of them hugged each other excitedly.
Cao Xuan slapped the muscles on Cao Yong's back vigorously and joked: "Brother! Look at this body of Gada meat, Wang Xiao and Zhang Leigong will see each other in the future, can you still call you Cao Luzhu! ”
"Ah sex, you have also grown a lot of flesh and a lot of height!" Cao Yong's smile is lovely, full of care.
Listening to the titles of "Cao Longjiang", "Lord", "Cao Rebellion" and "Cao Xiaojun" every day, and now when I hear the word "Ah Sex", Cao is very sexy.
However, he was in a hurry, he just chatted with Cao Yong in a hurry, encouraged Huang Fuxin, and began to look at the crowd brought by Cao Yong, and after searching several times, he didn't find the target: "What about Zhang Zhongjing?" ”
Cao Yong looked at Cao Xing's anxious face, doubted in his heart, and explained: "Originally, Zhang Zhongjing heard that Ah Xing was coming, and he arrived in Jiangxia half a month early to wait, but a few days ago, Huang Chengyan, a famous man who lived in seclusion in Nanyang, suddenly fell seriously ill, and Zhang Zhongjing has gone north to seek treatment!" How? What's wrong? ”
"What? Treat Huang Chengyan! Cao Xing exhaled, thinking that Zhao Feng and Ma Zhong, who were already dying, and more than 100 seriously ill guards, he was anxious, but Zhang Zhongjing, who was regarded as a life-saving straw, went north:
"Cao Xiang, bring my sweaty horse over! Brother, you lead the way, Hu Chi'er, Huang Shao, Cai Yang, Li Dian, and Cao Ying follow me and me, seven of us, one person and three horses, rushed to Huang Chengyan's place, and quickly asked Zhang Zhongjing to come over to save people.
In the past few days, Huangfu Li, Chen Yang, Su Shuang, and Huangfu Xin temporarily led the army. ”